Ken Aldred

I only have the original series Omnibus hardcover; Birth of a Legend.

I once bought a claw hammer from the hardware section of a local branch of Clas Ohlson, a Swedish home goods store which also operates in the UK. That's as close as I've got in reality to wielding something akin to Mjolnir. Great quality hammer, as well, I should mention.

I'll be the first nerd to post.

As Ozymandias has been mentioned, with his detached, sociopathic approach to carnage, there's also The Comedian, who, in Watchmen, can clearly be seen enjoying himself a bit too much at times.

Never heard about that, but Fleisher’s imagination was pushing the boundaries of the mainstream in this run. Inventive, memorable Bronze Age, especially if you first read it as a kid back then. An obvious WTF component to it.

Yup. Good example, and very controversial for its time, and an indicator as to why the series was curtailed.

Given his identity, it’ll be interesting to see how much violence there’ll be in the new Cosmic Ghost Rider comic.

Yup. Poor stories, and an indication of what was to be consistently delivered by Continuity Comics, years later. The best interpretation of The Spectre has always been the deity-sanctioned, dark Spirit of Vengeance, first in his original More Fun Comics run, and then as later developed by Michael Fleisher and Jim Aparo in the 70s, and John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake in the 90s.

Now that Galactus has been mentioned, and we’ve deviated from just the anti-hero category, it’s a good point at which to suggest Thanos for inclusion, as the most extreme, empathy-deficient sociopath in comics, capable of annihilating half of the life in the universe without caring in the slightest about the death and destruction he caused, as long as his selfish, desired result was achieved.

If there's one defect that puts me off buying a comic more than bad or uneven miswraps and miscuts, rusted staples, rat chews, insect damage, subscription creases, soiling or staining, it's broken inter-atomic bonds down at the molecular level. I expect the screening of my purchases to be much more stringent than described by the seller. Terrible laziness.

The Dark Knight Returns

Yup. But, he is The Law.

Rocket (Raccoon) in the GOTG films. Doesn't take much of an excuse for him to point a gun at someone or, as Kav suggested, try to inflict an extemely sarcastic wound. In the films he quite obviously enjoys the violence and carnage. A less mainstream choice would be Orion of the New Gods.

I stopped after the Project Pegasus and Her storylines, around issue 60. Annual 7 is often overlooked in favour of Annual 2.

As someone with a very obsessive-compulsive mindset, I appreciate your reluctance. The thread is already traumatising enough for me.

It’s been suspected that former stormtrooper Finn is the son of the stormtrooper who banged his head on the door frame while marching through the Death Star corridors in Episode 4. Soon Disney will be filling in the detailed backstory here, as well.

The David Anthony Kraft era. The early stories following on from Gerber were good, with Giffen and Golden on art, but, likewise, I started to lose interest around the same point myself. The last issues I bought as a kid were the ones I recall referencing Blue Oyster Cult.

Yup. Then we could have the Star Wars / New Gods film.

It started out strong enough with a couple of decent X-Men and Dr Strange stories, but then became quite generally mediocre and inessential, with one or two bits of quality in amongst the dross, such as BWS' Thing story, some David Mazzucchelli, Dave Gibbons, and a Chris Claremont coda to the Death of Captain Marvel, but far too patchy as a whole.

Deadpool 2 destroys it. Not even close. Definitely appeals to a British sense of humour.

On the BBC Film Review it was stated that much of the film was done by the directors of The Lego Movie, who were fired and replaced by Howard quite late on. I don't recall dual director credits at the end.

I never thought a sequel would be necessary, even before watching the film, and it does expand sufficiently on details from Han's story in the original trilogy well enough to make more exposition, and another cinema ticket, a bit redundant. Already a mediocre, padded, and empty experience before additionally factoring in the box office failure.

Batman The Cult 1 went as high as £50 in the UK in the late 80s, but by the mid-90s crash I could see complete sets of the mini-series going for cover price, now around £5 for the first issue.

Unlikely. Too typical old school crimefighter, like The Shadow and Green Hornet. Spectre would be an easier update.

One of my two favourite Golden Age DC characters, along with his fellow More Fun Comics hero, Dr Fate. He shouldn't be made cosmically all-powerful, as he was in his earliest adventures, which would possibly be a little too much in a film, but the ideal would be the dark spirit of vengeance interpretation of Fleisher and Ostrander, administering imaginative, bizarre punishment to criminals.